
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, May 3, 1990                   TAG: 9005040693
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: S-4   EDITION: METRO  
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

RELIGION BRIEFS

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH in downtown Roanoke has raised $3 million toward the construction of a $7.9 million building and parking garage project. The Rev. Charles Fuller, pastor, said the campaign will continue until an additional $3.4 million is promised. Fuller said the church will not reduce its giving to causes outside the congregation in order to get into the new building sooner. In 1986, the church announced plans to construct a larger worship center and other facilities during the '90s decade.

\ CHURCH WOMEN UNITED of the ROANOKE VALLEY will observe May Fellowship Day Friday at First Presbyterian Church, South Jefferson at McClanahan. The meeting, in the church's Lapsley Chapel, will begin at 10 a.m.

\ GREENE MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH plans to send 14 members to Salisbury, Md., July 7-14 to help construct three houses to be sold to the working poor. The work will be done for the Habitat for Humanity ecumenical agency.

\ THE REV. GEORGE BOWERS, who retired from a 20-year pastorate of St. Mark's Lutheran Church five years ago, will be installed Monday as the next president of the interfaith Roanoke Valley Ministers Conference for professionals. The ceremony will be at Camp Bethel Conference Center.

Other new officers are: Kirk Ballin, Unitarian-Universalist; Steven Teague, Baptist; Anna Marie Canary, Roman Catholic; Gerald Stone, Presbyterian; Richard Harris, Lutheran; and James Reynolds Jr., United Methodist.

\ KERYGMA, an intensive program of Bible study for adults, is open for registration at Calvary Baptist Church in downtown Roanoke. Starting in September, "The Bible in Depth" course will be taught Sundays from 4 until 6. A less intensive study, "Discovering the Bible," will be offered Mondays from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. and Wednesdays from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. The courses are free. Call 344-9237 for more information.

\ FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH has begun a campaign to raise $365,000 during the next three years. The largest portion will go to improve the air and heating systems, to upgrade the organ and to buy new office equipment. More than $100,000 will be allocated to a national church mission fund, for building a Habitat for Humanity house for the working poor and to start a fund for the proposed Peace Presbyterian Church in the Bonsack area.

\ HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH will celebrate its centennial this fall. Former members and friends are being sought and may call 774-5736 or 342-0347 for more information. As part of its ministry to the Old Southwest neighborhood, the church has scheduled a month of Sunday night activities in May. The activities include meals, special music and a Highland Park gathering. For details, call 342-0347.

\ A CAMPING TRIP for fathers and sons is scheduled Friday and Saturday under sponsorship of the young men's organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Camping will be at the Peaks of Otter and participants don't have to be members of the church. Call John Whitby at 989-9775 for more information.

Deadline for religion briefs for Neighbors is Thursday. Material must be delivered to Neighbors Religion Briefs, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010, by noon in order to run in the following Thursday edition.

***CORRECTION***

Published correction ran on May 10, 1990 in the Nieghbors South edition\ Correction

Because of an editing error, an item in the May 3 edition of Neighbors said a Kerygma Bible course being offered at Calvary Baptist Church this fall is free. There is a fee for books that are $24 or $22 respectively for the intensive and survey classes.

Memo: correction

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